#RIP Robert Carradine

Suicide due to bipolar disorder. Yikes! I saw at least one of those Revenge of the Nerds movies, as well as Mean Streets where he shot his half-brother David Carradine in a bar, then David tries to choke him out with his final breath. (!!)

Robert was the son of horror legend John Carradine from the olden days of Hollywood. Robert also happened to star in the TV remake of one of my favorite horror flicks Humanoids from the Deep. His version was okay at best, but I remember watching it on TV as a kid and liking it a lot more back then.

#AmericanYakuza2 (1996)

Part 1 stars Viggo Mortensen as an undercover FBI agent infiltrating the yakuza. I like Viggo, but I was quite indifferent to this movie overall.

Then comes along part 2, sometimes known simply as "Back to Back": a TV movie sequel in name only. They tacked on the "American Yakuza" name to sell it more, but it clearly has nothing to do with the first one. One guy from the first movie is in there, but he's playing a different character.

After irritable ex-cop Bob Malone (same name as Fred Williamson's character in the Black Cobra series) stops a bank robbery, one of the robbers (Bobcat Goldthwait) gets away and winds up at a gangster's restaurant and holds the place hostage. A yakuza guy name Koji is there and winds up obliterating Bobcat and tries to get away to carry on with his shady business, but the cops hold him for questioning.

Bob's daughter Chelsea (Danielle Harris) heads to the station to bail him out and meets Koji. After escaping interrogation, Koji holds Bob and Chelsea at gunpoint to get away, heading back to Bob's place to think of the next step.

Rooker is always great, especially when he's pissed off. What I really liked is that Danielle actually had top-billing and was a main character, looking cute as ever. A solid cast overall and decently entertaining, so I deem it better than the first.

Who's going to see #Scream7?

I'm not exactly thrilled by the plot, and the trailers are absolutely infuriating. They're giving away all the kills! Why the fuck would you do that!? I started watching the latest trailer and turned it off after 5 seconds because of that shit. Stupid fucking assholes^plonkers must not have much to offer if all they can do is highlight the kills.

The movie honestly doesn't look good. I'll find out on opening day though, because I'm a stupid bitch. If Stu isn't the killer, I'm going to shit.

New ‘American Psycho’ Film Is “Completely Different,” Major Stars “Turned It Down” Says Author Bret Easton Ellis
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It was back in 2024 that director Luca Guadagnino (Suspiria, Bones and All) and writer Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, The Bourne Ultimatum) were announced for a new adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis‘ 1991 novel American Psycho. Austin Butler was poised to star as serial killer Patrick Bateman, but nothing has officially been set so far, […]
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#Stream (2024)

From the Terrifier team comes this Strangers-esque slasher where hotel guests are locked inside and cut-off from wi-fi and cell service while masked psychos set out to kill the guests in a live-streamed competition.

The cast is great if you're a horror fan. Jeffrey Combs plays the eccentric psycho running the hotel, donning some attire that reminds me of the fisherman in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer in which he played... an asshole resort manager. What's good about this is that he's finally not being reduced to a bit part, but he's an actual main character.

David Howard Thornton plays yet another Art the Clown knock-off. They cast him for his exaggerated mannerisms an lanky appearance, and that's what you get with his killer. There's also a beefcake and a busty killer, too. I do love boobs.

Our main protagonists are a family here for a getaway. Dad means well, mom is Danielle Harris, the son is a technology addict, and the daughter is a cliche who is surely attactive, but also has a distracting underbite of a jaw. That thing is the real star of the show.

I was also surprised to see Tim Reid who played Mike Hanlon in the 1990s "It". You also have appearances by Daniel Roebuck as a drunken bastard, Felissa Rose as that guy's pissed off wife, Dee Wallace, Tony Todd, Mark Holton who played the fat asshole in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, and most importantly to me... Danielle Harris! Of course, it's in her contract to die in every movie she's in, but she was there for a chunk of it, and Dave Sheridan was flirting with her in a cringeworthy scene.

You also have:
Terry Alexander from Day of the Dead... apparently?
Tim Curry: Didn't see him in there at all...
Bill Moseley: Also didn't see him anywhere...
Terry Kiser: No idea where. Probably a corpse from the get-go...

What the fuck is up with all these big names I can't see? I was actually paying almost full attention to the movie, too, which I don't normally do.

It's pretty violent, sadistic, a bit overly long, and it has a stupid fucking ending that's so dumb, I LOL'ed. I guess this movie is also similar to Laid to Rest in which the killer live-streamed his kills, and Danielle Harris had a cameo in the sequel to that one. A sequel is in the works called "ST2EAM", which is kinda weird. I'll probably watch it.

#ViolentCity (1970)

Jeff (Charles Bronson) is a hitman going against Al (Telly Savalas) and falling in love with Vanessa (Jill Ireland), a girl he's supposed to take out. Jill was Bronson's main squeeze in life, having stolen her David McCallum, so the lust is real!

This movie is Italian and feels like it. It starts off with a great car chase through the claustrophobic streets of the Virgin Islands. I normally don't care for car chases, but this one grabbed me. There's something captivating about that Italian style.

Things calm down a bit for most of the movie, but Charlie always plays it cool and the Ennio Morricone score helps a lot. It came out in 1970, but the movie was trying to cash in on the success of The Godfather for its 1973 U.S. release, but the only real similarity is a crime boss.

One of the better Bronson flicks I've seen outside of the Death Wish series, and an interesting downer finale.

#RIP to Tom Noonan. Man, they're dropping like flies!

I remember him primarily as The Ripper from Last Action Hero and Cain in RoboCop 2, but a lot of people know him from Monster Squad and Manhunter. He was also in the great Ti West movie House of the Devil. RIP Ripper.

Markus's TDS corner! #TDSmarkus

Trump was recently heard telling a reporter "you can't have guns, you can't walk in with guns". He is of course referring to the shooting of Alex Pretti and the fact that he was, legally I might add, carrying a gun when he was shot. Except we all know, plain as day, that he was disarmed by the ICE agents before he was shot. Trump knows ICE are in a bit of hot water over this. Two of the agents have been put on leave and he's apparently trying to de-escalate the situation in Minneapolis by sending in the "border tsar". But what does he really mean by "you can't have guns"? Does he really mean liberals, like Pretti, should not be allowed to carry guns but it's probably perfectly okay for conservatives to carry guns? Or he is just having a reflective moment about about gun control in America and he's speaking out loud? Of course he's never said that after any mass shooting, in a school or something. Either way, he's upset the NRA, who are on the side of Pretti. I swear Trump has no ideologies about anything much, he'll just say what he thinks is right at the time or whatever fits the narrative he's going with, even if it contradicts something that is well known, i.e. the 2nd Amendment allows all Americans to own and carry guns. So um, yeah you can have them..

Basically this is Trump's state of mind:

Pretti is shot by ICE - Gets Noem to again go with the "must be a domestic terrorist" rhetoric. However, video footage definitely does not favour ICE this time, so he listens to other Republicans, decides to "de-escalate" and sends in the Border Tsar. Admits that Pretti didn't deserve to die but he was carring a gun so it was, kind of, justified? Remembers there is something called the 2nd Amendment, but still goes with the "you can't carry guns" narrative because he doesn't know how to else to make ICE come out looking OK in this.

Here's the thing. Why doesn't Trump just come out and say, look, this ICE agent might have fucked up. People can make mistakes in the heat of the moment (or however he wants to spin it) but that it's being investigated internally as they are being placed on leave. Hell, he might even gain a bit of respect from some on the left. But he can't and won't do that, will he...

#CastleFalls (2021)

Directed by Dolph Lundgren himself! Castle Falls is about two characters caught in the crossfire over a fat sack of cash. Scott Adkins is working with a demolition crew about to destroy an old hospital, but he finds a wad of money hidden inside. Dolph is a prison security guard who gets word of the money from an inmate and wants to use it to save his sick daughter's life. They're both ater the money, but so is a gang of ruthless criminals.

This movie was a pretty solid. Competent, high stakes, and violent. Our protagonists are panicked and desperate, not impervious to fear and damage like they usually portray, and that human element is what's missing from a lot of Hollywood action romps.

Do you believe in any instances of the #MengeleEffect?

I could have sworn Stranger Things came out in 2015, but now I'm informed it was 2016. I'm usually pretty good about release dates, and I googled it and it said it was a common mengele effect.

Fruit of the Loom had a cornucopia in it, but Sinbad's Shazam never existed.